Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

Hmm, this would make my (xanga, livejournal, vox) fourth attempt at blogging. Maybe "attempt" isn't the best word choice... I blogged a lot my senior year of high school through my freshman year of college (Xanga). I blogged again really consistently during my junior year of college. (Livejournal lasted about a month before Abi switched to Vox, and for commenting purposes I switched, too.) Then there is NaBloPoMo aka November... National Blog Posting Month where you blog every. single. day. for. one. month. I managed to squeeze that one out my junior year, but went by completely untouched last year. So why blog? Again? And why not just go back to one of those other blogs? ...For starters, I like being able to use my email account for this blog, not having to create a new user name, a new password, not having to remember another set of them. Also, in general, I like vox better than the others, and I like Blogger more than Vox.

I miss blogging. But, it truly isn't much fun (in my opinion) to blog by yourself... It's fun to read others blogs, comment on theirs, while they read and comment on yours. It's a weird sort of camaraderie. However, whereas some enjoy the anonymity of blogging, I much prefer readers I know, as well as reading those blogs of people I know. For a good long while (um, senior year) I joked that I had lost my "bloggles" and no longer had anything to post about. In general, this is true, but I still miss blogging... When Abi was pregnant with Peter, and now because he's still just an infant, she hasn't been blogging. There goes the majority of my motivation to blog. Sam, who attempted NaBloPoMo a couple years ago, didn't do so great, but he kept up with mine... but with changing location and moving on to bigger and better things... we both kinda ignored the world of blogging except to check on Abi's blog every now and then on the off chance she did update. My college roommates did the whole NaBloPoMo thing, too (part of why I was successful at it... HEY CHELLE, ITS 11:52, have you blogged yet?!)

Another motivation was simply that it was a great way to "stay close" with people who I couldn't talk to everyday... Now, when I go through the people that I would enjoy talking to/keeping in touch with on a daily basis... Either we do talk almost every day, or they aren't the type who get online everyday (or every week for that matter) to have access to read my blogs. So, I'm not really sure why I've decided to start blogging again. Part of it for sure is that I just genuinely miss blogging. Part of it is that Mary, Caitlin, and Chelsea have started blogging and keeping up with theirs... and maybe the biggest part of it is what I've titled this post... Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I had a wonderful four years at UTK. Classes, BCM, roommates, projects, friends and faces, Antioch, Kristen.... some intense memories, circumstances, and people who have changed me. I learned things (the most important of which, were, as I was foretold, not in the classroom) that will forever stay with me. I'm sure many of them will find their ways into this blog... but in general, that chapter in my life is finished. I have my first "real" job, I'm about to have my first apartment (that's all mine, no roomies), and I am stepping into a new stage of independence that I haven't experienced before. I'm excited. :-)